Choose Your Word of the Year

It’s time to choose your Word of the Year.

Picking a word to guide you through the year has become a popular activity. This can help ground you, allow you to focus, become your mantra for the days and weeks coming. I’ve been doing this for the last seven years. Sometimes the word works, sometimes it does not.

It has occurred to me that going forward, nothing is going to be the way it was in 2018. I am not employed by the same employer. I won’t drive to work the same route. My bedtime will be at a different time. I will be wearing different clothes. I may be living in a different house. Everything is going to change.

I even thought about using the word “different”, but it didn’t resonate. Then “build” occurs, which change goes along with.

Change is Hard

Change is hard but it’s exciting to embrace. While I don’t know what is around that curve in the road, it’s new to me.

Instead of being in the same old rut, I am facing new possibilities. I am looking forward to be refreshed in 2019. To be challenged. To do something different. To have new choices. To build new relationships, skills, experiences.